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Speaker 1: He's the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson of

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Speaker 1: the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio. Welcome to the Drive.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dale Alley here with Matt Williamson. Matt. It is

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Speaker 1: a Friday, which means, well, we are exactly three weeks

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Speaker 1: out from day two of the draft, and as we

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Speaker 1: get closer and closer, I I started throwing together my

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Speaker 1: list of top twenty potential Steelers in this draft. Because,

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Speaker 1: as we've talked about a lot, the Steelers, once they

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Speaker 1: get through their their visits and everything here in the

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Speaker 1: next couple of weeks, what they'll do is they'll put

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Speaker 1: their board together and then they'll come up with a

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Speaker 1: list of twenty guys that they would be more than

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Speaker 1: happy to take at pick twenty, since that's the pick

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Speaker 1: that they have. If they had picked if they had

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Speaker 1: picked fifteen, they would have fifteen guys on the list,

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Speaker 1: they had thirty two, they would have thirty two guys

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Speaker 1: on the list, but they have twenty. So that's what

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Speaker 1: we came up with, at least that's what I came

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Speaker 1: up with. Uh just sat down and did this today.

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Speaker 1: And it's an interesting thing there. This isn't the exact

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Speaker 1: what this is not my top twenty players in the draft.

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Speaker 1: It's through the Steeler's eyes, Right through the Steeler's eyes. Uh.

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Speaker 1: So here's what I came up with. Before you do,

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Speaker 1: let me stop you because I've thrown you a curveball.

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Speaker 1: You texted me, I'm gonna pull full transparency. You and

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Speaker 1: I have been teasing this for a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: We've done it the last few years. I've been kicking

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Speaker 1: it around in my cranium for a while. Now. You know,

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Speaker 1: will He made my top twenty will He? And you

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Speaker 1: texted me your list, and as soon as you did,

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Speaker 1: I shut up closed my app. I didn't want to

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Speaker 1: see it, you know. So I had a little bit

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Speaker 1: of time between when you texted me that and when

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Speaker 1: we hit record. So I sort of did something too,

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Speaker 1: And I just want to tell you how I did

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Speaker 1: it real quick. If you don't mind, Yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing we're both going to agree on this. But

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Speaker 1: I came up with ten players last year. I racked

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Speaker 1: him one to twenty, and I'm like, why am I

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Speaker 1: wasting time with these top couple? I came up with

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Speaker 1: ten that I just called gone. You know that they're

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Speaker 1: not going to be there, and then I have what

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Speaker 1: do you say that you know? I know it Allay

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Speaker 1: all Collins situation comes up or a war and SEP

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Speaker 1: situation comes up, right, and these guys dropped down the list,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you're like, oh, this guy

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Speaker 1: is available, you know, I know. And one of the guys,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a one hundred thousand percent certain he'll be gone,

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Speaker 1: but I think he'll be gone. So I came up

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Speaker 1: with ten just because I don't want to fight Jermaine

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Speaker 1: Johnson Verse, Crystal Lovey, you know what I mean. One

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Speaker 1: the Steelers that will do it the way that I've

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Speaker 1: done it here, they will raps the top their top

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Speaker 1: twenty guys. That's what they do, yes, And and they

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Speaker 1: went in they'll get one of those top twenty guys

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Speaker 1: and they'll get one of the top twenty guys. So

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Speaker 1: I just peaked at your list to see if you're

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Speaker 1: top ten or anything like my ten that I said

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Speaker 1: are gone. Well they're the exact same ten. Shocking, I mean,

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Speaker 1: And obviously Evan Neo and Aiden Hutchinson, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't think we need to dispute those two too often.

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Speaker 1: What if Evan Neal and Aidan Hudson are both there twenty.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, there's only so many minutes in the

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Speaker 1: day to dispute these things. But you but you put

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Speaker 1: those guys on the list if you're the Steelers, because again,

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Speaker 1: you you've got picked twenty and so you want to

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Speaker 1: line things up here so that you know, all right,

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Speaker 1: we're going to get picking at twenty one of these

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Speaker 1: if they get to pick let's say they get to

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Speaker 1: trading back or boy, these guys are going quick or

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Speaker 1: you know whatever. And they probably even have peers within

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Speaker 1: their top twenty two, like they're not gonna be happy

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Speaker 1: to get number twenty, right right, Yeah, I mean, but

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Speaker 1: case scenario, that's worst case scenarios. If if everything goes

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Speaker 1: if everything goes great, you get number eleven. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I want to get into your list percent here. But

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Speaker 1: all I did was I put a list of ten

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Speaker 1: I don't have my remaining ten yet, but I listed

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Speaker 1: those names for these next ten spots. Okay, so let's

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Speaker 1: roll through the tough ten here, Yeah, and then we'll

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Speaker 1: talk more about the eleventh through twenty. So the top

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Speaker 1: Charles Cross, Sauce Gardener, Derek Sting, like Kyle Hamilton's and

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Speaker 1: Jermaine Johnson. I do find it interesting though the Steelers

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Speaker 1: are bringing Kyle Hamilton's in for a visit. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: those are my top ten as well. I just called

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Speaker 1: them all gone when I did this. Originally I had

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Speaker 1: Steeler either way, Let's just count him in the top ten.

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Speaker 1: The position he plays is not something thereafter. I think

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Speaker 1: there's a nine percent chance he's gone. After Stingley ran

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Speaker 1: a trade up in a Paula Mall who moved. Here's

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Speaker 1: the thing he has to follow. The Derwin James went

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Speaker 1: But safeties do happen. They do fall sometimes, and with

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Speaker 1: all the edge rushers, with the you know, some of

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Speaker 1: the other positions, you know, maybe there there's a possibility

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Speaker 1: that you know, and maybe it's a fifteen percent chance, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that Kyle Hamilton's falls to them. Well, yeah, you want

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Speaker 1: to have done your homework on him. Um, you know

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Speaker 1: that's that's just the reality of the situation. Um, you

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Speaker 1: definitely worth bringing in Kyle Hamilton's. For As for Jamaine Johnson,

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Speaker 1: great to pass him up. I guess. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: in the teams on my list are probably all gone,

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Speaker 1: right right, right right, But I didn't want to wrest.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want to rank Jermaine Johnson against Jordan Davis

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Speaker 1: or Malau Willis. So I hear him in the God,

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Speaker 1: you know, I hear you that a waste my time on.

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Speaker 1: with number eleven, I've got I've got Garrett Wilson, okay,

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Speaker 1: and I've got Jamison Williams right after him at twelve. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's about what I was to say. That interesting, um,

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Speaker 1: in my considerations of nineteen, those two will definitely be

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Speaker 1: their own tiers. Is the top two wide receivers agreed.

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Speaker 1: I would not put Burks or a Larva in that group.

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Speaker 1: I it sounds like if they're both there, you're taking Wilson.

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Speaker 1: right right right now, I hear you, And we just

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Speaker 1: don't know enough about Jamison. I mean, Jamison Williams may

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Speaker 1: entire season for all we know, we just don't know you.

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Speaker 1: I think you bring him in as one of your

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Speaker 1: thirty visits where you make sure you're you know he's

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Speaker 1: situation where those two would flip flop. But I think

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Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson ahead of Jamison Williams. And it sounds like

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Speaker 1: right outside my top ten, yeah right, and they won't

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Speaker 1: but Williams versus Wilson to me is close. At thirteen.

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Speaker 1: I have Trent McDuffie. I think if you get an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to take a guy who could be a really

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Speaker 1: have not given this that in depth of thought. We'll

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Speaker 1: see who your next guys are, but I can't fight

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Speaker 1: you on it. I mean, Wednesday, I went on this

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Speaker 1: diet tribe about no Wammy's in round one. Trent mcuffee's

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Speaker 1: not gonna be a wammy. I mean, he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: number two corner. He's not gonna hurt you ever. In

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Speaker 1: really low, really clean prospect. Yeah, that carries a lot

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Speaker 1: take guys. And this is what the Steelers have done

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Speaker 1: typically take a guy who, while he may not be

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Speaker 1: And that's what you gotta do in the first round,

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Speaker 1: especially when you're in the bottom half. I'm not picking

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Speaker 1: Already Burns pick. No, no, not where there's He was

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Speaker 1: the sixth corner taken in that draft. That's as I say,

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Speaker 1: there's probably he probably was a six corner on their

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Speaker 1: a risk. Yeah, yeah, I had no problem with top

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Speaker 1: three at fourteen. We may differ here. I've got Malik Willis.

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Speaker 1: He's my number one quarterback. Again, I haven't built a list,

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Speaker 1: so I haven't weighed him against the others, but he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be in this neighborhood for me. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure Jordan Davis is coming up soon for you. If

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Speaker 1: they both were sitting there at twenty, which I think

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Speaker 1: is possible, I'd have a tough choice. And I've been

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Speaker 1: That's why so I haven't done my top twenty list yet.

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Speaker 1: Is I've been kicking around things like that, Like Davis

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Speaker 1: versus willis totally different ways of team building. It absolutely is.

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Speaker 1: And um ironically, Jordan Davis is I have him at fifteen.

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Speaker 1: I take I take the quarterback over the defensive tackle

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Speaker 1: because I think you can get defensive tackles much easier

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Speaker 1: than you can get quarterbacks. Oh, there's no argument in

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Speaker 1: the other direction for that. Do you want to know

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Speaker 1: tackle or a quarterback in terms of scarcity and position value?

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Speaker 1: But one of them could be a whammy. I don't

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Speaker 1: think Jordan Davis can be a bust. I mean he'll

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Speaker 1: help you somewhere. He might. But you know, right right right,

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Speaker 1: it's sixteen. That's where it starts to get a little

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Speaker 1: hairy for you. Yeah, pretty much. And I bet I

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Speaker 1: bet we differ on this one. Well, I don't know yet.

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Speaker 1: Well I am. I just don't know who I picked. Next.

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Speaker 1: Is I have looking on my board, I have Drake

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Speaker 1: London next. Okay, I can see that, and I think

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Speaker 1: I think he's a safe double. I think he'll play

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Speaker 1: a lot of snaps for you. I think he'll be valuable.

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